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15 Books to Add to Your 2014 Reading List

Best Books of 2013

1. Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock by Matthew Quick

Leonard Peacock wakes up the morning of his 18th birthday with plans to kill his former best friend, then himself. Though he's introduced with homicidal and suicidal plans, Leonard quickly proves to be on of the most sympathetic and heartbreaking characters in YA literature this year.

2. Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell

This novel is about the transition from high school to college, and what it means when friends (or in this case, a sister) adapt at a different speed. While this is a pretty standard theme for YA novels, Rowell makes it fresh by making her protagonist, Cather, something of a star in the online fan-fiction community. A must-read if you've ever wondered what that "shipping" is all about.

3. Reality Boy by A.S. King

4. Teeth by Hannah Moskowitz

A fantasy book for non-fantasy fans: Rudy moves to a small-island community with his parents and dying little brother, when they learn that fish exclusive to their coast heal the sick. The fish work, but their availability is threatened by a teenage merman who quickly become's Rudy's best and only friend.

5. If You Could Be Mine by Sara Farizan

A fast paced doomed love story, If You Could Be Mine follows the often told tale of childhood best friends that become a couple in their teen years. But in their home country Iran Sahar's and Nasrin lesbian relationship could get them killed.

6. And The Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini

Hosseini, author of The Kite Runner weaves together the stories of families and relationships over a span of over fifty years, jumping locations from the middle east to the US. Each story is compelling on its own but they're made even more so by their connections.

7. red doc > by Anne Carson

8. The Good Lord Bird by James McBride

The Good Lord Bird, which won the National Book Award in fiction this year, is a piece of historical fiction set in the 1850s following real life abolitionist John Brown and Henry Shackleford, the fictional slave who travels with him in the years before the Civil War.

Molly Horan was an editorial intern at Mashable. She's worked as an editorial fellow at Buzzfeed.com and an editorial intern at Dosomething.org and Crushable.com. Her web writing has also been published on Flavorwire.com, Sparknotes.com, and Nerve.co...More

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